Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] ought to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard , on the odd occasion you something for me Richard I ought to be a lot for you ! |
| 2 | In the debate Lord Holland recognised the dread among the upper classes that the lower orders might be seduced by subversive principles , " particularly afloat at this moment " , but also considered that some masters were taking advantage of this moment to " enforce their views and render their workmen more dependent than they had hitherto been and than in all fairness and equity they ought to be " . |
| 3 | I think that whenever there 's a programme it ought to be agreed above and below er a hierarchy . |
| 4 | I said " the words he ought to be able to spell " . |
| 5 | If and when we choose violence he ought to be the focus of our efforts . |
| 6 | Forgetting the past is obviously not the positive action it ought to be if it results in waves of violence towards anyone perceived as not sufficiently ‘ German ’ . |
| 7 | They can help to identify which companies you ought to be looking at , they may have a database of relevant information , and if you are looking at information-gathering from a number of companies they can save you time and effort if they do the legwork . |
| 8 | This discussion suggests that the question we ought to be asking is not a descriptive one — what is public law ? — but a prescriptive or normative one : when ought public law rules apply ; or , what is the proper scope of public law ? |
| 9 | If the mens rea principle and the principle of proof are objectives worthy of a rational and humane system of criminal law they ought to be used critically to assess the achievement of the total system rather than circularly to select an acceptable portion of the criminal law . |
| 10 | In this universe they ought to be huge . |
| 11 | So , he 's only had the same length of time doing this as you have so , by the end of the afternoon you ought to be in the position to print out a really neat final version of of of the letter . |
| 12 | The only place you ought to be is locked on this dance-floor with me . ’ |
| 13 | This German you ought to be doing , and you 've got economics to do . |
| 14 | From my observance , you 're not exactly overjoyed , although in view of all you 've said about Robert you ought to be rejoicing . |
| 15 | After 16 years you ought to be fluent in the language and , if you make this a priority now , you 'll be enhancing this phase of your life instead of simply waiting for it to pass . |
| 16 | It 's absolutely the worst type of business we ought to be |
| 17 | Now on the face of that that that that 's seems fairly sensible , y'know if somebody is in need we ought to be doing something about it . |
| 18 | There 's a lot of emphasis these days about individuals growing as individuals , but are you really saying that because women are obviously individuals they ought to be given the opportunity of growing in a way that they could only do if they had jobs ? |
| 19 | ‘ I think in any rural town it ought to be possible to find an hour or so to stroll round , just to talk to people about this and that . |
| 20 | I think , therefore , that as Anglicans we ought to be affirming more confidently than we usually do the freedom this gives to the mind , the heart and the body to be an integrated whole . |
| 21 | The way I see it — if I had saved the world from a lot of boring belly dancers I ought to be congratulated . |
| 22 | You think that because I can sometimes see what 's trivial and what 's important in art I ought to be more virtuous . |
| 23 | " Unless it 's bolted on the inside we ought to be able to get in with these , " he said . |
| 24 | I would suggest that initially one of the things we ought to be doing is making approaches to the private sector through their organisations where they exist and say , look we really have to begin to get into the kind of discussions that you have been talking about earlier between health and social work ; health , social work and the voluntary side to talk about the issues of planning and the issues of quality and the issues of the form and shape of services and what sort of developments are acceptable in client-need terms and what are not acceptable . |
| 25 | Come on , if they 're asleep during the day they ought to be woken up . |
| 26 | By asking such questions it ought to be possible to begin to address systematically some of the sources of organizational diversity which both modernity and postmodernity present to us in their many authentic ways , rather than trying to push them all into a limited number of boxes made to a dominant pattern . |
| 27 | There is a standard lie for each club , but for a short person it ought to be one or two degrees flatter . |
| 28 | But that 's his ‘ sic ’ , not mine — I deny all responsibility — so by rights it ought to be in square brackets instead . |
| 29 | Once TOPIC and SEAQ screens had been introduced into a firm , the dealer could check what approximate price he ought to be getting , to be varied by what the firm took off or added to quote its price " net " of commission . |
| 30 | Well , if we 're really into wider democracy we ought to be promoting wider debate , please support . |